Jason Toney

Category: working

  • Plans are Like a Dream U Organise
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    Plans are Like a Dream U Organise

    In the course of day-to-day routines and expectations and habits, the sense of what’s the most valuable thing you do or could often be doing gets lost.

  • The Questions: 2017 Work Edition

    “Whenever things go wrong, whenever things go left, you can be in charge” – Maxwell, Listen Hear Will we continue to invest and experiment in bringing our brands to digital spaces (and in new and interesting ways) even though the money might not be there yet? The vast majority of the budgets in the entertainment…

  • The Audacity of Dumb
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    The Audacity of Dumb

    “You say that you care. I was unaware.” – Allen Stone, Unaware During last night’s live performance of Reply All during XOXO’s Story track, PJ Vogt said something to the effect of: This room is filled with people working on a dumb idea with friends that they are hopeful about. We might quibble over what’s…

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    That Evening with Norman Lear

    “Took a whole lot of tryin’ just to get up that hill.” – Janet Du’Bois, Movin’ On Up http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1 Kenya Barris, creator of Black-ish, and Baratunde Thurston, author of How to Be Black and probably the internet’s favorite negro, were on stage with Touré and the incomparable Norman Lear when Kenya asked a question. “How…

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    Ephemera

    “Now she’s long…long gone.” – The Black Keys, She’s Long Gone When there are events in the world, the event and the conversation surrounding it unfold on Twitter, the entirety of the experience of that event can be much more rich and engaging and deep on Twitter…The challenge when you try to put these event…

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    My Desktop, My Mind

    “People should see how we’re living.” – Lorde, Buzzcut Season I made this revelation on twitter today: you guys. moving my dock from hidden at the bottom to exposed at the left might be a game changer. #boringtweets — Jason Toney (@misterjt) November 6, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js I was sure this was a boring tweet. A…

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    My Tumblr is Tryin’ to Tell Me Somethin’

    “If I were you I would say yes.” – Margaret “Shug” Avery, Maybe God Is Tryin’ to Tell You Somethin’ Make something people will love.  “We used to have Internet companies we loved. This isn’t rose-tinted nostalgia about The Good Old Days; The apps were uglier, and harder to use, and less popular back then.…

  • One Year After “The Red Wedding”

    “Tell me lies and lullabies but don’t tell me to change.” – Rhye, Last Dance A year ago today, me and 100-150 of my friends and colleagues were laid off. Months later, a friend would call it The Red Wedding in conversation. I laughed a hearty gallows laugh at that idea. The Rains of Castamere…

  • A Trio of Thoughts

    “The name of the game is you.” – Raymond Scott, Lightworks It’s been two weeks since we launched the re-design of Examiner.com. It’s product design and strategy I’m proud of and I might find some time to talk about it but, at the moment, I’m in the dumps. Summer is ending. The exciting big bulls-eye…

  • Mr. No Days Off

    On getting from here to there.